Licensed today: the Booths supermarket in Poulton-le-Fylde, Lancashire...
Wednesday, 11 January 2023
Tuesday, 10 January 2023
Chattel slavery...
The Church of England has committed £100m to a fund it is setting up to compensate for having benefitted, over the years, from the slave trade. Unfortunately, the users’ manual - all 770,000 words of it - hasn’t been upgraded to acknowledge that it’s no longer OK to buy and sell people like farm machinery. Nowhere in the Bible is slavery condemned. When slavery is mentioned in the Old Testament, it’s generally to offer advice to masters about the practicalities of slave-ownership, and a warning not to sell fellow Jews into bondage. In the New Testament Jesus had many opportunities to condemn chattel slavery, though, significantly, he never did.
Licensed today: the gazebo in Lyddington village, Rutland…
Monday, 9 January 2023
Sunday, 8 January 2023
Thursday, 5 January 2023
A sense of fear...
“In the search for power, we are escaping a deep sense of frustration and fear – fear of life, fear of being uncertain, fear of death, fear of non-existence, and the fear which has been instilled in us through the organised religions of belief. Whether Christianity, Hinduism, or any other organised so-called religious movements, they have always created a sense of apprehension, a sense that you have to be saved by an external power, symbolised in a human being or in certain ideas. This has created in man – who is after all the result of centuries of development from the animal, and is still the animal – a sense of fear, which has been inculcated and sustained” (Krishnamurti, from a talk in 1966)…
Monday, 2 January 2023
Wordle in one...
Some days I do Wordle, some days I don't. Some days I get the chosen word in a few tries, some days I get 'timed out'. Today the word 'ANTIC' popped into my head, unbidden, and, blimey, it's today's word. Wordle's response: "Genius!"... and who am I to argue?...
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